Some interesting tidbits this week: a hacked Mac mini saved by an AI agent, musings on what Apple’s new HomeView is actually for, and a second Apple event now on the calendar before Halloween. So without further ado...
Hack to the Future
Ben Thompson opens his latest Stratechery piece, Apple and a Hacker’s Future, by admitting his always-on Mac mini got hacked through the Screen Sharing bug Apple patched in August and attackers were quickly exploiting on Macs with port 5900 exposed to the internet. That Mac runs nothing but Claude and Codex, and the interesting part is how he found out: his persistent Claude Code agent raised an urgent alert and stopped running commands on its own after noticing his account could suddenly run admin commands without a password.
We’ve got some interesting announcements from this morning, and another rumored event speculated for the week before Halloween. It looks like this will be a busy October indeed, both technologically as well as personally with doctor appointments and such. So without further ado...
Welcome Home (Siri?)
Apple’s “Welcome Home” launch on October 13 turned out to be four announcements, all built ar...
Here we go for our second Freaky Friday. Things are sorting out and hopefully settling down. More interesting tidbits and fascinating things in the leadup to the iPhone Duo launch, plus possibly an Apple announcement of some kind next week!
Return to Sender
If you use a Mac with a work or school email account hosted on Microsoft’s Exchange Online, Mail may be having a rough week. Microsoft sta...
The iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max, as well as the new Mac mini and Mac Studio, are now available. I had two 600 mile round trip same-day drives to UCLA for doctor appointments this week, so my apologies for the email delay. There will not be a Magic Monday next week, but I hope this will be an interesting, enlightening, and weird first edition of Freaky Friday.
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